Who We Are
Our Purpose
Our Principles
Equity & Inclusion: We uplift learning communities committed to diversity, equity, justice, and belonging.
Leadership & Integrity: We inspire the next generation of informed global citizens to lead with courage, competence, and empathy.
Opportunity & Innovation: We challenge limits to imagine and explore new possibilities.
Self-efficacy & Agency: We prepare girls for lives of commitment, confidence, contribution, and fulfillment.
Our Practice Areas
Girls’ Schools and ICGS
Educating and empowering students worldwide, the International Coalition of Girls’ Schools (ICGS) is the leading advocate for girls’ schools.
Gender equity and equality is an urgent, enduring, and global imperative, which demands that girls’ schools continue to forge educational spaces where the learning and healthy development of girls is prioritized. Girls’ schools are also intentional places of inclusion and belonging, where students discover who they are and how they want to go forward in the world. ICGS member schools are therefore called upon to recognize each student as an individual, to create and maintain learning communities that foster the full scope of healthy identity development, and to acknowledge the compounding disadvantages of intersectionality, while also honoring their institutional identities in accordance with their school missions, policies, and practices.
Girls’ schools have long been vital leaders for social and gender equity and equality, and they will long continue to be.